SAFE MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION

Safe Medication Administration

Safe Medication Administration

Introduction

Recently, an inadvertent injection of chlorhexidine throughout a radiological procedure commanded to the tragic death of a 69-year-old grandmother named Mary McClinton. (1) This death, the result of system errors, may have been preventable. Unfortunately, it pursues a number of other persevering killings that occurred as the direct result of answers being put in unlabeled basins throughout surgical and other invasive procedures. (2)

Discussion

Three years before, Ben Kolb's parents' appeared on a nationally televised display and notified the story about their seven-year-old son inadvertently being granted epinephrine 1:1,000 as a local anesthetic instead of the ...